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[Caml-list] Operators for Int64 and Int32

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From:	Erik de Castro Lopo <mle+ocaml@m...>
Subject:	Re: [Caml-list] Operators for Int64 and Int32

MichaÅ‚ Maciejewski wrote:

> I have already finished the wave part, but thanks. I didn't know about
> OCaml wrapper. Parsing a standard RIFF 8/16bit stereo/mono file isn't
> so hard, actually.

Exactly, parsing the most simple example is trivially easy.

However, being robust to malformed files, working around the broken-ness
where possible and supporting even a small subset of things other than
8/16 bit PCM is a huge task. From where you are now you will be tempted
to fix all these issues one by one. Down that path lines insanity.

Erik
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